Immanent Curiosity/Creativity in Science, Art, and Politics

This paper aims to discuss extensively the system of relationships among several types of art and branches of science, under a political perspective discarding any theological/capitalist stance. Once established a quasi-equivalence between creativity and curiosity, a number of features of the creative process are examined, focused firstly on the mind of one individual, and lastly, on the web of interactions anchored in a group of people. Then, mainstream statistics – equated with some sort of commercial numerology – is criticized on the grounds of the unrealistic and unverifiable assumptions it relies upon. As opposed to this, Correspondence Analysis as a method for assumption-free data treatment is put forward, allowing to explore the qualitative variables that are dominant in the fuzzy areas of art and of science of complexity. Two examples of fresh artistic experiences are given, one in the realm of writing, the other, of painting, both demonstrating the concept of practical poetry. The first epitomizes the ways how self-imposed rules that preside over the creation of a literary text may be a source of joyful gratification, based on a cooperation involving the writer and reader. The second demonstrates a process for visual artwork production drew on the collective labor of a set of robots, each one of which can only communicate with the others across the canvas where they evolve. Specific examples of the recombination of science, art, architecture, and urbanism are presented, under a radical perspective that rejects all forms of capitalist power, as it appears in current crisis.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Biological, anthropological, and social features of the creative process

Numerology vs. exploratory data analysis

Writing under constraints

Unmanned paintings

Science, art, architecture, and urbanism

Contemporary political/sanitary issues

Conclusions